MLopt Lab @ State University of New York at Albany
Principal Investigator
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Chong Liu Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SUNY Albany PhD in Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, 2023 Research Interests: Machine Learning: Bayesian optimization, Bandit algorithms, Quantum machine learning. AI for Science: Drug discovery, LLM math reasoning, PDE surrogate models. |
Lab Members
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Jawad Hossian PhD Student in Computer Science (since Fall 2025) Research Interests: LLM math reasoning First-author paper: HintMR: Eliciting Stronger Mathematical Reasoning in Small Language Models [ArXiv] Hobbies: Photography, reading books, traveling |
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Yusuke Ozaki Visiting Undergrad Student in Computer Science (since Fall 2025) Research Interests: AI for lab automation, Bayesian optimization First-author paper: Work under review at UAI-2026 Hobbies: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, reading books |
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Zakaria Shams Siam PhD Student in Computer Science (since Fall 2024) Research Interests: Bandit algorithms, AI for drug discovery First-author publications: [2] Multi-objective coverage via constraint active search (AAMAS-2026) [ArXiv] [1] Quantum non-linear bandit optimization (AAAI-2026) [ArXiv] Hobbies: Science-fiction novels and films |
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